Example sentences of "about [pron] be [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point about them is that , uniquely in the Province , they are both Unionist and resolutely non-sectarian . |
| 2 | One of the nice things about them is that they are situated in one of the quieter areas between Palma Nova and Magalluf , but it is only a short walk to the beaches and nightlife of both resorts . |
| 3 | There are good habits and bad habits but the main point about them is that they are all behaviour patterns which have been so thoroughly learned that they are done automatically without any conscious effort . |
| 4 | The most important thing to know about them is that they work synergistically with minerals : that is they enhance each other , adding up to more than the individual sum of their parts . |
| 5 | First thing to be said about them is that they 're all proteins covering a very wide range of molecular weights between three and three hundred kilobocals three thousand to three hundred thousand bocals . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most important thing to be remarked about them is that their numbers are very small and that almost all of them are men . |
| 7 | What is interesting about them is that while the development corporations acquired powers that gave them a great deal of autonomy within their own territories , there is today a variety of questions to be raised about the extent to which their ‘ success ’ was secured at the expense of other policies to which they ‘ ought ’ to have related . |
| 8 | What makes you nervous about them is that when you go to dinner with them , they pump up the chair . |
| 9 | I said , the vilest thing about them is that they can say that with a smile on their faces . |
| 10 | ‘ All I can say about them is that they were a real joy , ’ Bill Pertwee remembers . |
| 11 | The best thing about them is that you can personalise your gifts . |
| 12 | But the point about them was that they were comparable : different , but not necessarily inferior . |
| 13 | Yeah , what I like about , what I liked about them was that they were dead flat like , you know if you , imagine it a sweet the weight for a sweet were from say ten ounces to twenty kilos |
| 14 | They all they know about me is that my name is number twenty eight . |
| 15 | All they know about me is that I 'm number twenty eight . |
| 16 | One was that all people knew about me was that I was making trouble about the caravan site and a lot of them assumed that because it was at the bottom of my own garden , I must naturally be on ‘ their side ’ , whatever my political colour : that is , I wanted the site disbanded . |
| 17 | The principal complaint about me was that I was politically naive — a complaint again made by Michael Foot when I opposed his Bill to introduce a closed shop into journalism , which I describe later . |
| 18 | There must be a total retrieval now , the one good thing about which was that it might banish his dreams . |
| 19 | ‘ Of course what people find impossible to understand about you is that you genuinely do n't know what effect you have on men . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ One of the things I like about you is that you 're so ridiculous . ’ |
| 21 | Khan that before this meeting ‘ all we knew about you was that you were a member of certain pacts — even though paper pacts — and we were doubtful and cautious about you ’ . |
| 22 | The interesting thing about him is that he was one of those people who always turn out to be lucky no matter what they do . |
| 23 | But the central irony about him is that it was not only the Norwegian people that rejected him : even the majority of Norwegian fascists did n't want him . |
| 24 | All I can tell you about him is that he was an ensign flying a Catalina aircraft in England thirty-two years ago . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The great thing about him is that he can fight in and out of the trenches . |
| 26 | ‘ The great thing about him is that he always wants the ball and always wants to use it . |
| 27 | ‘ I think what came across most strongly about him is that he 's such a charming and pleasant person , ’ Dominic says of Justin . |
| 28 | The best thing about him is that I like him . |
| 29 | I 've only been in Dick 's flat once and the most interesting thing I 've gleaned about him is that he never uses washing-up liquid and he has a rather interesting pile of yellowing press cuttings sitting on a shelf . |
| 30 | She realised that the strange thing about him was that he was not drunk . |